Art & Artist
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Feast or Famine: DPRK Agrarian Posters from the Zellweger Collection
Thursday, June 7, 2012 | 6:00 PMFeast or Famine features 23 original posters from the Katharina Zellweger Collection. Zellweger collected over 100 posters during her tenure as the director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation program in Pyongyang from 2006 to 2011. This selection, rarely seen outside of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, centers around issues related to agriculture, animal husbandry, and food production. Created for a domestic audience and produced by government-run studios, the posters were designed to... Read More -
Asia Week 2012 Gallery Talk with Artist Park Jihyun
Thursday, March 22, 2012 | 5:00 PM- About the Speaker Title: Asia Week 2012 Gallery Talk with Artist Park Jihyun
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In conjunction with the gallery exhibition ASH: Contemporary Korean Art & Ceramics, artist Park Jihyun speaks to the creative process and his technique of burning incense onto rice paper. Park also will discuss his professional and personal exploration of both traditional and contemporary cultures. Thursday, March 22, 2012 5 PM Asia Week 2012 Gallery Talk with Artist Park Jihyun The Korea Society950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor Read More -
ASH: Contemporary Korean Art & Ceramics by Park Jihyun & Lee Inchin
Thursday, March 15, 2012 | 12:00 AM- Custom HTML field content: About the Speaker
Kick off Asia Week New York 2012 (March 16-24) with the works of internationally recognized artists Park Jihyun and Lee Inchin. Using incense to burn thousands of tiny holes onto rice paper, Park practices reverse-pointillism, puncturing the paper’s fragile surface with tiny marks and thereby subtracting rather than adding dots of paint and color. Lee’s masterful employment of the traditional wood-firing kiln and ash yield ceramics with a spectrum of colors ranging from yellow to bright orange, red-brown... Read More -
Korean Traditional Nubi Workshop with Artist Kim Haeja
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 | 3:56 PMLearn traditional nubi line-stitching from award-winning artist Haeja Kim. A designated holder of an Important Intangible Cultural Property award by the Korean government for her efforts at preserving Korea’s artistic heritage, Kim meticulously line-stitches layers of batting and fabric into fine garments and coverings. Stitches are employed over each article in a deceptively simple pattern, with smaller stitching highly valued and the mark of a true expert. Participants in the workshop will learn to make a... Read More -
Minhwa: Korean Folk Painting Workshop
Monday, September 12, 2011 | 4:03 PMMinhwa commonly refers to a genre of Korean folk art from the late Chosŏn era (17th–19th C.). Based on Shamanic, Buddhist, or Confucian themes, Minhwa, as a popular form, conveys freshness and vitality in a relaxed ambiance, in contrast with the more scholarly and stern Muninhwa-style favored by the yangban, or aristocratic, class. The use of vibrant primary colors and exaggerated painting styles were indicative of the taste of the middle-class, who wanted to imitate the yangban love of art, but with a touch of... Read More -
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Threading Life: A Lecture by Korean Quilt Master Haeja Kim
Thursday, March 24, 2011 | 2:50 PM- Vimeo Video:
Traditional Korean quilt technique requires keen attention to detail, patience, and dedication. With the arrival of the modern sewing machine, traditional quilting largely disappeared, yet master Kim Haeja remains steadfastly committed to the traditional ways of her craft. Designated Important Intangible Cultural Property No. 107 by the Korean government, Haeja Kim shares life’s lessons learned in the crafting of her quilts and textiles. Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:30PM Gallery Talk and Q&A Asia Week 2011... Read More -
Mapping Identity: Antiquarian Korean Maps of the MacLean Collection
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | 6:30 PM- Event Link: !
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Richard Pegg, Asian art curator of Chicago’s MacLean Collection, examines Korean maps in a variety of formats, the challenges faced by cartographers, and the formation of multiple identities in Korea during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The MacLean Collection, housed in a private museum outside Chicago, focuses on the cultures of Korea, China, and Southeast Asia. Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Asia Week 2011 Gallery TalkMapping Identity: Antiquarian Korean Maps of the MacLean Collection Read More -
10,000 Threads Around the World
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In conjunction with the gallery exhibition 10,000 Threads, acclaimed author Spike Gillespie explores the diversity and common threads of quilting in Korea, its neighbors, and lands beyond. Gillespie takes the listener on a global journey of the art, approaches, and techniques of quilt making. Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Asia Week 2011 Gallery Talk10,000 Threads Around the World with Spike GillespieAuthor, Quilts Around the World: The Story of Quilting from Alabama to Zimbabwe Read More -
Korean Traditional Woman Hat Making Workshop
Monday, November 8, 2010 | 5:51 PMLearn traditional Korean hatmaking from Chung Young-Yang, a master embroiderer and renowned textile scholar whose embroidery graces the presidential palaces of Korea, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution. Participants in this four-session workshop will learn to make a chobawi, a traditional Korean women’s hat with ear flaps of silk and fur. The class size limited, so register early. Every Monday, November 8-29 3PM-5PM Read More -
Korean Masked Dance-Drama: Enchanted Fertility Rite and Social Satire
Thursday, April 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM- Custom HTML field content: About the Speaker
Join us as Theresa Ki-ja Kim, professor emeritus of theater arts at SUNY Stony Brook, discusses how Korea's unique tradition of masked dance-dramas masterfully blended fertility rite, social satire, and popular entertainment. Held in conjunction with the exhibition, Masks of Night: Faces from Traditional Korean Dance-Dramas, Kim's gallery talk will introduce the masked dance-drama, a form of performance that included songs, dances, and dialogues that aimed to satirize the local nobility (yangban) and promote... Read More